If you look up the word "growth" in the dictionary you would find some of these descriptions included there:

• To increase in size
• To become greater in anyway
• To develop

In the context of business, we quite like the second definition: to become greater in anyway. Growth is a progression - from a current state to one that is better. In business we constantly talk about performance improvement where performance is defined, measured, and monitored in terms of several indicators related to finance, people, processes, and social responsibility. (The term "business" in our theme has to be understood in the broader sense of organisations - whether for profit or not for profit.) The issue of sustainability pervades our understanding of growth.